ACORANIIDAE, López-Fé, 2006

López-Fé, C. M., 2006, Some bathyal cheilostome Bryozoa (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Canary Islands (Spain, Eastern Atlantic), with descriptions of three new species, a new genus, and a new family, Journal of Natural History 40 (29 - 31), pp. 1801-1812 : 1809

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601043763
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2C138783-DC14-5506-E3C7-FF0EFC5126A1
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scientific name	ACORANIIDAE
status	fam. nov.

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Diagnosis

Autozooids with cryptocystidean frontal wall. Orifice with well-defined anter and poster, and condyles. Ovicell hyperstomial, not closed by the operculum, prominent, with an imperforate calcified entooecium, and a mostly membranous ectooecium. Interzooidal communication by uniporous septula. Avicularia may be present.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Bryozoa
Class	Gymnolaemata
Order	Cheilostomatida
Family	Acoraniidae

ACORANIIDAE, López-Fé, 2006

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